About Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay
Lived 1902 – 1968 (aged 65–66). Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay was a painter.
Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay (1902–1968) was a Scottish sculptor and modeller. She won the Guthrie Award in 1928 for her work The Bathers; a joint winner with William Crozier.
Biography
Findlay was born at Glenlivet in Banffshire and trained at the Glasgow School of Art under Archibald Dawson between 1920 and 1925. After graduation she taught at the Beacon School at Bridge of Allan and then at Hillhead High School in Glasgow. The Mercat Cross is considered a significant artistic triumph for Scottish women, as Findlay worked on it with Edith Burnet Hughes, the first practising female architect in Scotland.
From the mid 1920s to the mid 1930s, Findlay created several works including "Cobler (1927), The Bathers (1928), Gossip (1928), Head of a Baby (1930), Dancers (1931), King of the Castle (1931), Shy (1934) and Morning Song (1935)". For the 1938 Glasgow Empire Exhibition she created a frieze of figures. In December 1928, Findlay was awarded the Guthrie Award by the Royal Scottish Academy.
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Who was Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay?
British artist (1902–1968)
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Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay was born in 1902 in Banffshire.
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Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay died in 1968 in Bearsden.
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Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay was a painter.
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